On inlining in C++

[Scott Robert Ladd]

Robert Dewar wrote:
> Even the mechanism of dispatchinhg calls is completely undefined (and there
> are indeed two radically different mechanisms, one of which has no overhead
> from multiple inheritance, but costs quite a bit if you use MI). There are
> many things in C++ where the programmer has very little control (elaboration
> is another example).

Apples and oranges.

Standard C++ includes an "inline" keyword so I can specify that a 
function should be treated a an expected fashion (if possible). The 
language also includes the ability to inline functions by declaring them 
inside the class definition. It seems to me that the existence of those 
mechanisms implies that a compiler should respect them.

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Scott Robert Ladd
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